The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-22
UNIVERSALIST GENERAL CONVEN
TION.
Board of Trustees.

hueg, holden, Ihomas, Ryder and DEM
Arrest. Prayer was offered by Rev. Dr.
Ryder. The record of the May meeting
was approved.
The Committee on Scholarships re-
ported the single matter of business
which alone had demanded attention ad
interim.
The Committee of Fellowship report
ed: Grant Of Direct Fellowship to Rev.
E. L. Conger, of Pasadena, CAL, upon
letter of transfer from Illinois; lay IL
cense for three years from May 7, to ALT.
Van Cleave, of Dallas, Tex; Direct Eel
lowship to Rsv. @. A. Lander, of Messina,
Fla, upon letter Of transfer from Illinois;
Direct Fellowship to Rev. Geo. 81 Deere,
of Riverside, CAL, upon letter of transfer
from Minnesota; Full Fellowship to Rev.
J. K. Street, Of Dallas, Tex, after proba-
tionary license for one year.
The Committee on Finance report ed
audit of bills.
The Committee on Investments report
ed concerning loans and Investments
since the May meeting.
The Committee on Missions reported
appropriations: In aid of passionate at
Lincoln, Neb.; in aid of pastorate at Mar
BILE, Neb.; in aid Of pastorate at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa; in aid of pastorate of the
Church OF Our Father, Chicago, ILL.,; in
aid of movement at Richmond, Va; in
aid of passionate at Hutchinson, Kan; in
aid OF church renewal at Erie, Pa; in aid
of passionate at Lewiston, Idaho; in aid Of
the missionary work of the Kentucky
Convention; in aid of pastorate at YORK,
Neb.; in aid of movement at Sedalia, Mo-. !;
appointment of Rev. DIR. Chaplin, about
to visit japan, and other Asiatic coun-
tries, a representative therein of the Cen
eral Convention, with instructions to re-
port to the Board the result OF his inqui-
ries and observations-the appointment
involving no cost to the Convention.
The Committee on Young Peoples
Missionary Associations reported new or
CARNATIONS at Roxbury and Saugus,
Mass.
Other committees reported progress.
The Special Committee to visit Richmond
and report as to the practicability of a
movement in that city looking toward the
establishment of new parish there,
Messrs. Demsrest and Thomas, reported
the facts as they appeared, having recon-
mended to the Committee on Missions to
make an appropriation in aid of such a
movement, in charge of a clergyman to be
approved by the Committee.
The Secretary and Treasurer presented
their accounts for the year, and they were
referred for examination to Messrs.
Thomas and Perham, as an auditing
Committee
The Secretary reported that all sums
borrowed in anticipation OF revenue, had
been repaid.
The Secretary reported that in May
and June last he visited the Kentucky,
Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ontario
Conventions; and in August and Septem-
Der, the Indiana, Kansas, Missouri and
Iowa Conventions. During the latter
visit he spent week in missionary work
in Southern Missouri, at Morley, Scott
county, where a parish has been formed
and modest church edifce is to be
erected.
Communications were received and
filed, relating to affairs in Texas, and as
to hopeful conditions in st. Paul and in
Racine.
Reports from the Woman's Centenary
Association, the Woman's Universalist
Missionary Association of Massachusetts,
and the Sunday. School Library Commits.
sion were ordered to be printed in the
appendix to the report.
Correspondence with the attorneys OF
the estate of r. T. Bilderback, deceased,
late of Galveston, Texas, and others, was
considered, and proper action taken.
Final decision has not yet been had; but
it is hoped that it will come to trial at the
October term OF the District Court.
A communication as to will bequeath-
ing $4,000 to the Ministerial Relief Fund,
was read and fled.
Appropriations were voted in aid of
pastorate at Delphos, Kan, and of church
erection at Woodland Park, Ill.
Certain bills were approved and Or
dered paid.
Recess at P. NJ, until 2:30 P. NJ.
The Auditing Committee presented re-
port OF examination Of accounts and Sc
curities: Ordered to be published with
the report OF the Treasurer.
The Board proceeded to the considera-
ton of the special report to the Conven-
ton on matters referred to them; and az
ter amendment the draft was adopted.
A draft of the 22d Annual Report of
the Board was presented, and the same
was adopted, after amendment, and re-
ferred for printing, to Messrs. Demsrest,
Rugg, and Joy.
Adjourned, at Pm.
@. L. DEMAREsT, Secretary.
Manchester, N. II.